Nostalgia

Pre-reading heads up: This is NOT an attack on ANYONE who falls into the category I am about to discuss. It is merely an observation.

For some reason, tonight, all the extremely critical viewpoints are standing out to me. It may have something to do with, whatever I thoroughly enjoy (with the exception of cheap cigars and good whiskey) my best friend has to be critical of. I am not an overly critical person of much. To say that I am not critical of anything would be blasphemy- I am critical of people that believe a Prius puts out less-worse emissions than a good running diesel truck. I digress. It seems to me, that either I have been sucked into the mainstream mentality, or that I like the things that people are overly critical of. I won't name anything, as I'm sure that if you donate half a brain cell of attention to my posts you could name these works. I got into an argument with said best friend last year about a book- Confederates in the Attic. I believe that simply because I enjoyed the book he had to be critical of it. He refused to even open the cover, due to the fact that it has a rather goofy looking Confederate on the cover. He said to me "They're making fun of the Confederate Army." To which I attempted to reply "No, the guy is traveling around the South researching the Confederate way of life . . ." but no.
At this point, it occurred to me "How tiring it must be to have particular taste!" "This movie was too much like that one, this book had one too many of this word, the acting was horrendous, the directing was an abomination!" (These are exaggerations, I hope you followed.)
I read to be entertained. I watch movies to be entertained. I can be critical if I so choose to be. But the movie or must be absolutely horrible for me to donate that much energy to running it down.

While I'm here not understanding being overly critical, I'm going to be the ultimate hypocrite and be critical of a movie I saw last week.
Legion
One of the most appalling films I have ever seen. I thought it was going to be a smackdown of archangels and demons, with Gabriel and that one dude having the ultimate showdown. It starts off with some guy falling out of the sky and cutting some sort of metal thing off his neck and you see wings shrink into his back. he breaks into a building, kills a guy and takes his clothes, steals a bunch of guns, and kills a cop possessed by an angel.
the rest of the movie was a zombie apocalypse with a biblical judgement day twist. Granny takes a bite out of some dudes neck, jumps around on the ceiling and gets shot. A cloud of flies shows up. Some gangster gets tricked and eaten by the zombie-angels. Gabriel and the other human-angel duke it out for a minute. yee-haw. I'm exhausted from being so critical.